Top billed cast

1. 

   Chang Chen

   Xiao Si'r

2. 

   Lisa Yang

   Ming

3. 

   Chang Kuo-Chu

   Father

4. 

   Elaine Jin Yan-Ling

   Mother

5. 

   Wang Chuan

   Eldest Sister

6. 

   Chang Han

   Elder Brother

7. 

   Chiang Hsiu-Chiung

   Middle Sister

8. 

   Stephanie Lai

   Youngest Sister

9. 

   Tan Chih-Kang

   Ma

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-06-03

This isn't so much a drama as an intimate observational documentary following the lives of people recently arrived on the island of Taiwan after the Chinese communist party took control of the mainland. There is still a considerable degree of militaristic life amongst the population, and the secret police are never far from the minds of the adults whilst the adolescents come to terms with their own, quite often gang-related, issues too. Those are not, initially at any rate, gangs in the violent sense of New York's "Jets" and "Sharks", but they are just as important in providing a degree of str...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Chinese

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• high school
• baseball bat
• based on true story
• coming of age
• taiwan
• tragedy
• murder
• youth gang
• gang
• juvenile delinquent
• teenage boy
• troubled teen
• first love
• taipei
• 1960s
• slow cinema
• teenage protagonist
• bitter